Publications by authors named "Denise Mourao Falci"
Objective: Investigate whether the use of psychoactive drugs would be a predictor of incidence of functional disability among seniors living in community.
Methods: It is a population-based longitudinal study, developed between January 1, 1997 and December 31, 2011, with older adults living in community. The association between the use of psychoactive drugs and the development of functional disability for instrumental (IADLs) and basic (BADLs) activities of daily living was tested using the extended Cox proportional hazards model, which considers the measure of exposure of interest throughout the follow-up period.